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(0)Clay Jenkinson
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"The literature of pandemics is rich and revealing. The virus in question may change but human nature remains the same whether it is in response to the Black Plague of 1348 or the Covid-19 virus of 2020. The history and literature of pandemics teaches us that 1) we are not alone--our responses have been the same as all people at all times when an epidemic visits seemingly out of nowhere; 2) we will get through this--however apocalyptic this crisis...
Author
Publisher
Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A former Washington State Historical Society director examines the Corps of Discovery's journey after they crossed the Rocky Mountains. He places curious and seemingly inexplicable aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition story into a broader historical context, and reveals how earlier explorers and fur traders influenced the American captains"--
Publisher
Reel2Reel Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, learn the amazing true story of "The Father of the Atomic Bomb." J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 - Died on February 18, 1967, A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and best known for creating the Atomic Bomb, during WWII.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
